How To Install cups-ppdc on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-ppdc on Ubuntu 20.04. cups-ppdc is Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD manipulation utilities Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD manipulation utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-ppdc on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is `cups-ppdc`

cups-ppdc is:

The Common UNIX Printing System (or CUPS(tm)) is a printing system and general replacement for lpd and the like. It supports the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), and has its own filtering driver model for handling various document types.

This package provides utilities to generate and manipulate PPD files. Task: print-server, ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop

Package: cups-ppdc Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.3.1-9ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: net Source: cups Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Printing Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 634 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libcups2 (>= 2.3~b6), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5), cups-common (>= 2.3.1-9ubuntu1) Filename: pool/main/c/cups/cups-ppdc_2.3.1-9ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 91332 MD5sum: ebfb48cf0b91d6722693f3c0472fbf81 SHA1: 01e6b2dbe91ee91b7a0e71ef1c6dd91f54f79894 SHA256: a86af7df0e6a0c1f6630167397ae6f8331d7a2a7c7f117cd96cf44ae296f5c9c Homepage: https://www.cups.org/ Description-en: Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD manipulation utilities The Common UNIX Printing System (or CUPS(tm)) is a printing system and general replacement for lpd and the like. It supports the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), and has its own filtering driver model for handling various document types.

There are three methods to install cups-ppdc on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install cups-ppdc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install cups-ppdc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cups-ppdc

Install cups-ppdc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install cups-ppdc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cups-ppdc

Install cups-ppdc Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install cups-ppdc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cups-ppdc

How To Uninstall cups-ppdc on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the cups-ppdc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cups-ppdc

Uninstall cups-ppdc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cups-ppdc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cups-ppdc

Remove cups-ppdc Configurations and Data

To remove cups-ppdc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cups-ppdc

Remove cups-ppdc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove cups-ppdc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cups-ppdc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-ppdc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.